Now he’s backing his bureaucrats who have likely condemned an Afghan translator to death by refusing him a visa to Canada. Where are the Usual Suspects on this? The chickenhawks urging no end to our Afghanistan mission? Wrong-headed as I consider that mission to be, it’s still supposed to be all about human rights and Western-style democracy, isn’t it?

But heaven forbid we let any of those we’re busy liberating come here, even when they’ve stuck their necks out a mile for our troops and their lives are in danger for so doing. We’re happy to bring law to the lesser breeds without it—so long as they stay right where they are.

Perhaps, however, none of this is surprising from the fellow who keeps a photo of a Nazi collaborator on his desk—“Saint” Aloysius Stepinac, who once averred that “Hitler is an envoy of God.” Talk about “barbaric cultural practices.” But it all depends on the “culture,” I guess.